***Holidays originates from Holy Days, a time for spiritual reflection*** Life is far too complex to compartmentalize your activities into three broad categories, and certainly during these challenging times in the age of a pandemic.  But it may be helpful to consider the motive behind all your endeavors and the ultimate benefit you derive as […]

On the ballot this November was a referendum on character, decency, civility and morality. After all, a nation’s leader reflects what we will allow. Are these the values – the lies, the bullying, the chaos, the shameless attacks, the pure vitriol – that we were willing to accept? Thankfully, the answer was a resounding NO! […]

We are such an action oriented, activity driven society. Always on the move, going here going there, often mindlessly just to be in motion or fill up our calendar. We need to be doing something, going somewhere, doing anything just to feel and look productive. It’s not socially correct just to simply say we are […]

*{Upon leading a few informal sessions and discovering all the misperceptions we have of Meditation, my hope is the following may be helpful to summarize the essence of why people are drawn to it and how to make sense of all the noise}* Welcome. We are drawn to meditation because we lead very busy lives, […]

Drop a frog into a pot of extremely hot water and it will immediately leap out.  Put that same frog in a pot of cool water that slowly heats to a boil and the frog will not jump out.  It will remain in the increasingly hot water until it eventually boils and dies.  Why does […]

*A draft script for a Film Festival* Nathan had seen them all, every one of these pathetic quotes about making the most of each day. Blah, blah, blah…insufferable nonsense. He had read every self-help book on the market, blabbing on and on about living in the moment, live as if you were to die tomorrow. […]

KarmaCafe: A meeting place where those who pass through the doorway find meaning, redemption and understanding as they discover their lives intersect in surprising ways and that we are all interconnected in some manner. This is not my story. Rather, this a story about all of us. Our story will be told through the lives […]

**Reposting as I miss my daily fix due to COVID!** We are a coffee culture.  In fact, coffee is so woven into the fabric of our daily lives that we don’t just simply drink coffee, we have coffee.  It is so integrated in our daily routine and often feels like an experience, an event of some […]

We are battling two viruses, often concurrently, but both devastating in different ways. The COVID-19 virus is a pandemic on a scale never seen in our lifetimes and has gripped all of humanity. It is an invisible enemy that has rapidly spread to all corners of the earth, reaching a milestone of 100,000 deaths in […]

*Reposting* Now is the time to recharge if we can free ourselves from the undercurrent of stress and anxiety this pandemic causes on our psyche. In our modern world today, this turbo-charged rat race we call daily existence, our schedules are so busy we rarely come up for air.  Aside from the random vacation or […]